Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 Merchant Paul
Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 Merchant Paul Houses, in the Argentine and Chilean films of the early twenty-first century, provide much more than a backdrop…
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Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 Merchant Paul
Houses, in the Argentine and Chilean films of the early twenty-first century, provide much more than a backdrop to on-screen drama. Remaking Home argues that domestic spaces are instead the medium through which new, fragile common identities are constructed. Nor are they simply refuges from political turmoil or spaces of oppression.
Where previous scholarship has focused on the social fragmentation and political disillusionment visible in contemporary film, Remaking Home argues that in order to understand the political agency of contemporary cinema, it is necessary to move beyond deconstructive critical approaches to Latin The varied documentary and fiction films analyzed here, which include an early work by Oscar winner Sebasti n Lelio, use the domestic sphere as a laboratory in which to experiment with narrative, audiovisual techniques, and social configurations.